1500 in art

The year 1500 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

• 26 July: Bartolomeo di Pagholo ("Baccio della Porta") becomes a Dominican friar.
• Sandro Botticelli begins painting of Adoration of the Christ Child (1500-1510) as a tondo (round painting), oil on panel.

Works

Botticelli, The Mystical Nativity

• Fra Bartolomeo – Annunciation (oil tempera on wood; Uffizi, Florence)
• Sandro Botticelli – The Mystical Nativity (National Gallery, London)
• Cima da Conegliano - Madonna and Child (National Museum Wales)
• Albrecht Dürer
  • Lamentation of Christ (approximate date)
  • Paumgartner altarpiece (approximate date)
  • Self-Portrait
  • Seven Sorrows Polyptych (approximate date)
• Giorgione – Adoration of the Shepherds (approximate completion date)
• Pietro Perugino - Vallombrosa Altarpiece

Births

• 3 November - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (died 1571)
• date unknown
• Hans Sebald Beham, German printmaker, engraver, designer of woodcuts, painter and miniaturist (died 1550)
• Niccolò Boldrini, Italian engraver (died 1566)
• Giulio Campi, Italian painter and architect (died 1572) ^[1]
  • Pompeo Cesura, Italian painter and engraver (died 1571)
  • Jean Chartier, French painter, draughtsman, printer and publisher (died 1580)
  • Pieter Claeissens the Elder, Flemish painter (died 1576)
  • Jean Cousin the Elder, French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician (died 1593)
  • Juan Vicente Macip (or Vicente Joanes Masip), Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1579)
  • Alessandro Oliverio, Italian painter (died 1544)
  • Niccolò Tribolo, Italian Mannerist artist (died 1550)
• approximate year of birth
  • Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Italian painter of the Parmesan School of Painting (died 1569)
  • Domenico Campagnola, Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance period (died 1564); he was a pupil of his father, the painter Giulio Campagnola
  • Giovanni Battista Castello, Italianhistorical painter (died 1569/1579)
  • Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo, Italian painter (died 1584)
  • Jean Mone, German-Flemish sculptor (died 1548)
  • Luca Penni, Italian painter, member of the School of Fontainebleau (died 1556)
  • Georg Pencz, German engraver, painter and printmaker (died 1550)
  • Ligier Richier, French sculptor (died 1567)
  • Jan van Amstel, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (died 1542)
  • Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (died 1566)

Deaths

• date unknown
  • Antonio del Rincón, Spanish painter and artist (born 1446) ^[2]
  • Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1447) ^[3]
  • Friedrich Herlin, German painter (born c.1425)
  • Bernardo Tesauro, Neapolitan fresco painter (born 1440) ^[4]

References

1. Kugler, Franz (1855). Handbook of Painting: The Italian schools. J. Murray. p.  498.
2. Wornum, Ralph Nicholson (1847). The Epochs of Painting Characterized: A Sketch of the History of Painting, Ancient and Modern, showing its Gradual and Various Development from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. London: C. Cox. p.  411.
3. Gertrude Coor, Neroccio de' Landi 1447-1500, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1961, 235 p., 30 x 23 cm.
4. Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II: L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 561.